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Magical Ink-pot

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Easy to make, Magical Ink-pots

One can behold no more useful an accompaniment to the quill, than the magical ink pot. Waiting deep inside its velvet inky blackness, are all the words for all the tales that have yet to be told. Your task is to discover them and order them to your bidding. However, be sure to utter the Ink Pot Ode as an incantation, before you embark upon the creation of your great opus, and heed the commonsense therein. . . .
Your Magical Ink-pot which will be made using a few old kitchen cleaner bottle caps or a single serving drinks bottle, will look utterly fabulous, and besides, it’s a great way to keep your feather quill on your desk. No serious wizard or witch would think about starting their new term without it. . . .
There is more than one way to make our ink pot and it all depends on what junk you have at hand to make it with. Any small juice bottle (single serving) or small shampoo or conditioner bottle may be cut down to size, sprayed black and simply made in to the finest looking Magical Ink-pot. Because the finishing touch of any magical ink-pot is the label, you'll find that we have provided three different sizes of label on the label download. The label also cleverly covers up the join in the bottles that you have cut down to size. To make sure that it goes round properly, stick it on at the front first, and then wrap both ends round to the back, trimming to the correct length at the back for a really neat finish. . . .
Download, the graphic printable bottle labels and whichever instructions best fit your needs, and get making magic. One set of instructions will show you how to make the ink-pot from three old packaging lids, the other, how to make the ink-pot from a small, single serving bottle. Make a different one with each of your children (if you magically have more than one), or for each colour of ink. The instructions and all the graphic printable templates are available in both A4 and US Letter size downloads just click on the size you need to download it.

Ink-pot making instructions using packaging lids

Choose these instructions if you have collected some packaging lids that you can use to make your ink-pot.

Ink-pot making instructions using small drink bottle

Choose these instructions if you have a small bottle that you can use to make your ink-pot.

Ink-pot label printable

Download and print off these labels to add the finishing touch to your Magical Ink-pot.

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We can't wait to see the pictures of what you’ve made. Kids love it when the things you made together are published, so go on upload a picture of what you made. It's easy, just go to your dadcando My Page and upload your pictures into this project and we'll put one of them right here in the project picture gallery.

To give you the higest quality and the shortest download time, most of our downloads are supplied in Adobe PDF format for your convenience. Adobe Reader is standard on most computers, but if you do not have it, you can get the most up to date version free from Adobe, here.

Your downloaded projects

Posted by tuskel - Since I made two quills, red and blue, I thought it would be fun to make the colour changing ink that is mentioned in Philosopher's Stone. Harry buys some in Diagon Alley. However, the name of the wizarding stationery shop is never mentioned. There is one in Hogsmeade, called Scrivenshaft's though (as mentioned in Prisoner of Azkaban) and I figured they must sell some, too. This bottle is made of a water bottle - surely recognisable - and painted inside with different acrylic paints - red, blue and ochre mixed with black. After it was almost dry (we just couldn't wait!), I taped it up and added the labels.

Posted by luppie05 - I painted the feather with red patina because it was a little damaged because i glued it to the table. But i think it only looks better! Like a real phoenix feather! I painted the inkpot with nail polish, hihi

Posted by macca - This was surprising easy to do and so impressive. I'd recommend anyone to try it out!

Posted by sausages - I used these really funky smoothie bottles and painted them black. I stuck the fabby labels from dadcando on and shoved a pretty gem stone cork in the top!!!

Posted by harrypotter123 - The label on this ink pot is from this website. I am telling this because the label cannot be seen. I used the second instructions of it.

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Wizardry and Magic

Harry Potter is all done. Of course there are rumours of an eighth book and the fact that we still have two films to go (as the last film will be split into two). It's going to be a long summer, but November will come round soon enough and the bitter sweet joy of seeing another HP film will be tempered by the fact that there is definitely only one more after that. Nevertheless, while you wait, there’s always more than enough magic in the air for you to recreate events at Hogwarts, the Burrow or the Ministry of Magic, by making your own models of Hogwarts wizarding paraphernalia.
Homemade wizard’s wands, Golden Snitches, or beautiful writing quills and loads of other Potteresk things are all here, ready for you to download on dadcando.

Even if you’re just a muggle and have had enough of Harry Potter, there are plenty of other magical fantasy stories to keep you interested in the Magical Art of Making. All the Chronicles of Narnia are all being turned into films, as are the stories of Lyra in the books of His Dark Materials trilogy. Whenever we see interesting things in these films and stories, we will bring you them as best magical fantasy craft projects, so that you can turn your hand to making magic, and conjuring up some really cool stuff to amaze your friends.

Now you can make your very own Victorian Domed glass display case, from a 2 litre soda bottle, to display all your favourite projects and artifacts really beautifully. With our simple instructions, the results of just an afternoon's making will be really cool, good enough to be film props in fact, and better than anything you can buy, because you made it yourself.

Or why not make a beautiful writing quill from either a hippogryph, phoenix or snowy owl feather . And because no quill would be complete without its own ink pot, there are also some easy to follow instructions and printables, for making the most fantastical, magical Ink-pots.

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